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#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith

The Fifth Column

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The Tactics of Facebook

Facebook made decisions in Silicon Valley that were not about the media industry or about politics, they were about Facebook. The most interesting kind of choice was that there's a moment where Twitter starts to take off and Mark Zuckerberg sees it as an opportunity. I think if you look back from this vantage point, I think every company would say, oh my god, no, Twitter can have the entire flaming sewer.

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